Dawn Hawkins of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation says Roku has a “backdoor” to private, sexually explicit channels while other competitors have stayed away from hardcore pornography.

Roku was founded by its current CEO, Anthony Wood, and National Center is asking the public to contact Wood and urge him to drop the controversial – and likely highly profitable – porn access.

At the same time National Center is fighting Roku, the American Family Association is asking the Department of Justice to investigate Netflix for streaming “Desire,” a 2017 film that depicts two pre-teen girls in a sexually explicit scene.

AFA sent an “Action Alert” to its supporters encouraging them to contact Attorney General Jeff Sessions about the graphic content in the film.

Netflix was already in AFA’s cultural cross hairs over “13 Reasons Why,” the popular Netflix series adapted from the book of the same name. The first season has been attributed to at least one teen’s suicide and AFA asked Netflix to cancel the second season or risk more suicides.

In the National Center’s fight with Roku, meanwhile, Hawkins says the company is not even hiding its affiliation with hardcore porn. In fact, she says, the porn industry advertises the accessibility via Roku.

National Center helps parents protect their children from objectionable content so it has a step-by-step guide to help parents block content. But there is one streaming service without parental controls – Roku.

Despite a lack of parental controls, parents can use a code on Roku that must be entered to add new channels according to National Center.

Editor’s Note: The American Family Association is the parent organization of the American Family News Network, which operates OneNewsNow.com.

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